Hi, I thought I'd join the Eduard Mk IX party and do one with a difference, it'll be done as one of the 2 Mk IXs that were captured and flown by the Zirkus Rosarius who basically toured round various air fields with captured aircraft so that Luftwaffe aircrew could get a close look at the types they were fighting against. First up some pics of the real aircraft before someone tells me that only Mk XIs were flown.
There are no known pics of that aircraft being actually used though as far as I know, this one was though
Although it looks like it has had some kind of windscreen fabricated as a replacement!
Here is the Mk XI that was flown showing the colour scheme used for captured aircraft.
The colours used are RLM70 and 04 undersides and tail unit.
This is were I'm at as of tonight with the Brassin pit.
As you can see the Brassin pit is just superb, its quite delicate and needs to be handled with care but the best thing about it is that it fits into the fuselage without any surgery you normally have to do with resin pits.
Its made a pleasant change to use something other than grey paint as well, hopefully I've got the colours about right! I've kept the weathering pretty light as the new owners would be wanting to look after it as it wouldn't be easy to get a replacement.
Thanks for looking in, as usual comments are welcome.
Tim.